Stacey Wilk wrote her first novel in middle school to quiet the magical characters in her head. It was that or let them out to eat the cannolis and she wasn't sharing her grandfather's Italian pastries. Many years later her life took an adventurous turn when she gave birth to two different kinds of magical creatures. She often sits in awe of their abilities to make objects fly, it snow on command, and remain dirty after contact with water. She does share the cannolis with them for fear of losing her fingers. Because of the magic and wonder of the extraordinary characters now in her home instea...